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Weak Earnings Prospects Weigh on Stocks
forecast at Procter & Gamble were among the disappointments investors were dealing with Wednesday. Drugmaker Eli Lilly and the biotech giant Amgen also fell after reporting results. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 43 points, or 0.3 percent
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Weak Earnings Prospects Weigh on Stocks
subscribers from its contract-based plans as smartphone sales slowed. Investors were also disappointed by sales growth at biotech giant Amgen and flat revenues at drugmaker Eli Lilly. The prices of oil and gold rose and the yield on the benchmark 10-year
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Amgen 1Q Profit Rises 21 Percent on Drug Sales
Biotech giant Amgen Inc. says its first-quarter profit rose 21 percent on higher of $4.37 billion. Sales of the Thousand Oaks, Calif., company's biotech drugs were driven by growth of Enbrel for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis
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New App Helps Icelanders Avoid Accidental Incest
page of genealogy. It was the common man documenting his own history," said Kari Stefansson, chief executive of Icelandic biotech company deCode Genetics, which ran the contest behind the app. The Book of Icelanders database was developed in 1997 by
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Boston Marathon Photo Helps Son Find Two Injured Parents
moved to Charlestown, Mass., in 1998. A former professor of pharmacology, Eric Whalley had just retired from a job in biotechnology . Just Wednesday night, Whalley had a conversation with his father, who gained consciousness for the first time. "He
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Ricin Letters Intended to Scare, Not Kill
actually poison anybody," said Dr. Henry Miller, a former director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Biotechnology . "You don't have to kill a lot of people just to create terror." RELATED: Secret Service: Ricin-Laced Letter to
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Can You Patent Human Genes?
on a whole new challenge. She joined a lawsuit against a biotechnology company she believed was blocking her ability to make informed an actual invention. The case has huge ramifications for biotechnology companies racing to create personalized tests and treatments
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Banks Paying Out $9.3B Mortgage Settlement
fear-based environment right now," says Kim First, CEO of the Agency Worldwide, a recruiting firm for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The tax filing deadline is closer than ever. Just five days before you must file your 2012 taxes. But what if
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New Law Spurs Controversy, Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops
derogatory name for the bill refers to the biotech company, Monsanto, which opponents say language doesn't require USDA to approve biotech crops. It also doesn't prevent individuals from suing the government over a biotech crop approval," said a source from the
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Newtown Slowdown (The Note)
the real consequences of the bill will be, ABC's SARAH PARNASS reports. The derogatory name for the bill refers to the biotech company, Monsanto, which opponents say lucked out with the measure's passage. Critics see it as a win for peddlers of
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Scientists Developing Hypo-Allergenic Apples
eels to heartier soy bean crops. Dr. René Smulders, an associate editor of the Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology and a manager at Wageningen University, collaborated with the Ager Melo Group on the project and says designing a product
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Indiana Farmer Takes on Seed Behemoth Monsanto; Justices Skeptical of Farmer's Claim
universities eager to ensure innovative biotechnology continues to be made available to side with Bowman, existing biotechnology patents would be devalued, and the incentive to innovate in biotechnology going forward would be severely
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Corporate Cash Helps Fund Obama Inauguration Festivities
companies as United Therapeutics, a biotech firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland United Therapeutics stepped up. The biotech company was the sixth largest corporate Corp., energy giant Southern Co., biotechnology firm Genentech and health plan manager
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Bush Visits BioTech Plant in North Carolina
President Bush is in North Carolina discusses ideas for cutting gasoline consumption in the US. Mr. Bush is visiting a Biotech plant which produces enzymes to help turn matter such as corn. Into ethanol fuel among other things to learn more about the
for cutting gasoline consumption in the US. Mr. Bush is visiting a Biotech plant which produces enzymes to help turn matter such as corn. Into ethanol fuel among other things to learn more about the -
Nightline 03/06: Martha Stewart Is Back and in Court Again
on Halloween. At the height of Stewart's powers. The debacle prosecutors' charging her with selling shares of flailing Biotech company imclone based on inside information. A woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars skirting to say just forty grant
Stewart's powers. The debacle prosecutors' charging her with selling shares of flailing Biotech company imclone based on inside information. A woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars skirting -- -- to say just forty grant. -
Retail Wars: Martha Stewart Is Back in Court Again
on Halloween. At the height of Stewart's powers. The debacle prosecutors' charging her with selling shares of flailing Biotech company imclone based on inside information. A woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars skirting to just forty grant
Stewart's powers. The debacle prosecutors' charging her with selling shares of flailing Biotech company imclone based on inside information. A woman worth hundreds of millions of dollars skirting -- -- to -- just forty grant. -
Cancer-Sniffing Dog Gets Cloned
front of anyone who carries descent of certain chemicals found in breast prostate lung and bladder cancer cells. The cream biotechnology firm leading to cloning project says he's cancer sniffing dogs could be of great marketing tool. The department stores
chemicals found in breast prostate lung and bladder cancer cells. The cream biotechnology firm leading to cloning project says he's cancer sniffing dogs could be of great marketing tool. The department stores a laundry company. -
Deval Patrick's Democratic National Convention Speech
today Massachusetts leads the nation. economic competitiveness. Student achievement health care coverage life sciences and Biotech energy efficiency and veteran services. Today with the help of the Obama administration we are rebuilding our roads and bridges
nation. -- economic competitiveness. Student achievement health care coverage life sciences and Biotech energy efficiency and veteran services. Today with the help of the Obama administration we are rebuilding our roads and bridges and expanding -
Run Your Car on Pond Scum
Biotech company takes a closer look at algae as an alternative fuel source.
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Stocks Take a Dip
kind of may be slightly concerned. There they're kind of Biotech their drugs kind of you know part of the business maybe not know of other you know grains. You know agricultural type biotechnology type you industries. Now there were too strong growth sectors
little bit kind of may be slightly concerned. There they're kind of Biotech their drugs kind of you know part of the business maybe not doing this -- some analysts had thought. However there's try to invest more kind of like solar technology invest more in things like. You know of other you know grains. You know agricultural type -- -- biotechnology type you -- industries. Now there were too strong growth sectors for you know this company basically -- electronic side of the


















